Alumni
Alumni Advisory Panel Members for BMG trainees Heading link
| Photo | Name (PhD Advisor / Graduation Year) | Affiliation & Title | Web Links |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Sherwin Abraham (Gaponenko / 2011) | Director, Drug Product, Director, Apellis Pharmaceuticals | |
 | Brandon Nicolay (Frolov / 2010) | Senior Director, Discovery Biology at FogPharma | |
 | Ansu Perekatt (Tyner / 2011) | Assistant Professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology | |
 | Tanya Stoyanova (Rayachaudhri / 2009) | Associate Professor at University of California, Los Angeles | Lab Website | LinkedIn |
Graduate Student Alumni Heading link
| Graduation Year | Name | Lab | Degree Awarded | Where they are now |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Katarina Vlajic | Tyner | PhD | Postdoc., Schweppe Lab at Univ. of Washington |
| 2023 | Soeun Kang | Hay | PhD | Postdoc., UIC |
| 2023 | Xinge Wang | Rehman | PhD | Bioinformatics Scientist, Abbvie |
| 2023 | Patrick Grudzien | Gaponenko | PhD | Postdoc., Budunova Lab, Northwestern Univ. |
| 2023 | Hyunsoo Kim | Hay | PhD | |
| 2023 | Alexandra Rader | Frolov | PhD | |
| 2023 | Kaitlyn Kiernan | Simonovic | PhD | |
| 2023 | Rong Ke | Rana (Surgery) | PhD | |
| 2023 | Alison Ha | Harijith (Case Western Reserve Univ.) | PhD | Postdoc., UIC |
| 2022 | Daniel Principe | Rana (Surgery) | MD/PhD | |
| 2022 | Hannah Pennington Kluger | Merrill | MD/PhD | |
| 2022 | Naiyuan Cheng | Lau | PhD | Postdoc., UIC |
| 2022 | Milica Gilic | Tyner | PhD | Postdoc., Kalodimos Lab, St. Jude Children's Hospital, Memphis. |
| 2022 | Wanian Alwanian | Tyner | PhD | Assistant Professor, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia |
| 2022 | Shang Gao | Rehman | PhD | Principal Bioinformatics Scientist I in Roche, Canada |
| 2022 | Priyanka Gajwani | Rehman | PhD | Postdoc., Rehman Lab, UIC |
| 2022 | Hyunsoo Rho | Hay | PhD | |
| 2021 | Anu Puppala | Simonovic | PhD | Scientist, Cellgorithmics, Chicago, IL |
| 2021 | Alex Terry | Hay | MD/PhD | Medical School, UIC |
| 2020 | Casey Blaha | Hay | MD/PhD | Residency: Internal Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2020 | Majd Ariss | Frolov | PhD | Scientist, Cell Signaling Technology, Saugus, MA |
| 2020 | Adam Didier | Nakamura | PhD | Microbiome Scientist III, Millipore-Sigma, Chesterfield, MO |
| 2019 | Matthew Durst | Lavie | MD/PhD | Resident Physician, Univ. of Toledo Medical Center |
| 2019 | Ben Hitchinson | Gaponenko | PhD | Scientist,Longeveron Inc, Miami, FL: |
| 2019 | Matthew Macdougall | Merrill | MD/PhD | Resident Physician at Stanford University |
| 2019 | Ryan Clarke | Merrill | PhD | CEO, Cellgorithmics, Chicago, IL |
| 2019 | Georgina Mancinelli | Grippo (Gastroenterology) | PhD | Postdoc., Macleod Lab, Univ. of Chicago |
| 2018 | Stefanie Kall | Lavie | PhD | Product Marketing Manager, NanoTemper Technologies, Chicago, IL |
| 2018 | Amanda Mennie | Nakamura | MD/PhD | Postdoc., Ly Lab, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas TX |
| 2018 | Xinyu Chen | Hay | PhD | Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Medicine, Stanford University |
| 2017 | Gaurang Bhide | Colley | PhD | Senior Scientist, Biologics Discovery (Glycobiology at AbbVie) |
| 2017 | David Ebenezer | Natarajan (Pharmacology) | PhD | Senior Scientist, Lab Head, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals |
| 2017 | Akshay Pandey | Raychaudhuri | PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow, Standford Univ. |
| 2017 | Shuo Huang | Raychaudhuri | PhD | Senior Associate, Baidu Ventures |
| 2017 | Indira Elangovan | Reddy (Pediatrics) | PhD | |
| 2017 | Darren Wozniak | Tyner | PhD | Senior Consultant, LI-COR Biosciences |
| 2017 | Joshua Bernstein | Shikano | PhD | Senior Scientist at Abbott |
| 2017 | Yu (Jenny) Zheng | Merrill | MD/PhD | Residency: Psychiatry, Northwestern University |
| 2016 | Kimberly Gao Laffey | Ackerman | PhD | Postdoctoral Associate; Dept. of Mol. Micorbiology and Immunology, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO |
| 2016 | Aleksandar Antanasijevic | Caffrey | PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow, The Scripps Research Institute |
| 2016 | Malgorzata Dobosz-Bartoszek | Simonovic | PhD | Support Scientist at Cytiva |
| 2016 | Dannielle DeWaal | Hay | PhD | Independent Researchers of America for Conservation |
| 2016 | Jane Kim | Segev | PhD | Director, Medical Strategy, 21GRAMS |
| 2015 | Brian Shy | Merrill | MD/PhD | HS Clinical Instructor, UCSF Cellular Therapy Development Laboratory |
| 2015 | Rachel French | Simonovic | PhD | Field Application Scientist, Agilent Technologies |
| 2015 | Kaitlyn Holman | Simonovic | PhD | Senior Scientist, Research and Development at Abbott |
| 2015 | Priya Mathur | Tyner | PhD | Senior Publications Manager, Immunology-Dermatology at AbbVie |
| 2015 | Battuya Bayarmagnai | Frolov | PhD | Research Scientist at WuXi AppTec |
| 2015 | Alexandra Vilkova | Benevolenskaya | PhD | Medical Science Liaison at Novartis Pharmaceuticals |
| 2014 | Mike Beshiri | Benevolenskaya | PhD | Research fellow, National Cancer Institute, NIH |
| 2014 | Ya-Ting Chang | Nakamura | PhD | Senior Scientist at Genentech [LinkedIn] |
| 2014 | Michael Chastkofsky | Tyner | PhD | Statistical Programmer at Amgen |
| 2014 | Tanmay Chavan | Gaponenko | PhD | Medical Writer, MedVal Scientific Information Services, LLC |
| 2014 | Jacob Choi | Lau | MD/PhD | Oncology Fellow, Northwestern University |
| 2014 | Yuka Shimizu | Garcia (Univ. of Arizona) | PhD | Head of Process Development at Orbsen Therapeutics Limited, Galway, Ireland |
| 2014 | Chun-I Wu | Merrill | PhD | Senior Scientist at SQZ Biotechnologies |
| 2013 | Kristin Ivy | Kaplan | PhD | Senior Medical Science Liaison; Global Blood Therapeutics, FL |
| 2013 | Mustafa Okur | O'Bryan (Pharmacology) | PhD | Assistant Researcher, Kheradvar Lab, University of California, Irvine. |
| 2013 | Krushna Patra | Hay | PhD | Assistant Prof. Univ. of Cincinnati, OH |
| 2013 | Wan-Ni Yu | Hay | PhD | Nonclinical unit head, Taiwan Liposome Company |
| 2013 | Maoyu Peng | Tyner | PhD | Scientist, Kite Pharma, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2013 | Zebin (Sarah) Wang | Raychaudhuri | PhD | Clinical Biomarker Director at GSK, Boston, MA |
| 2013 | Sumeyye Yar | Solaro (Physio. & Biophysics) | PhD | Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases Researcher & Science Outreach Educator; Genspace, New York City, NY |
| 2013 | Joseph Zapater | Colley | MD/PhD | Endocrinology Fellow, UI Health |
| 2013 | Aaron Ambrus | Frolov | PhD | Assistant Project Scientist, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2012 | Marianna Halasi | Tyner/Gartel | PhD | Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| 2012 | Yu (Eric) Zheng | Tyner | PhD | Senior Scientist II at Prime Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, MA |
| 2012 | Jackson Hoffman | Merrill | PhD | Biologist, NIEHS, Morrisville, NC |
| 2012 | Nilotpal Roy | Raychaudhuri | PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSF, San Francisco, CA |
| 2012 | Matt Thompson | Colley | PhD | Life Sciences Management Consultant at Accenture |
| 2011 | Sherwin Abraham | Gaponenko | PhD | Associate Director, Drug Product, Apellis Pharmaceuticals, San Francisco, CA |
| 2011 | Youngshim Lee | Gaponenko | PhD | Lecturer; Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2011 | Janai R. Carr-Ascher | Raychaudhuri | MD/PhD | Assistant Professor in Residence, UC Davis Health |
| 2011 | Jessica Celigoy | Caffrey | PhD | Manager of Platform Development Specialists-North America at Sartorius |
| 2011 | Jessica Gierut | Tyner | PhD | Principal Research Scientist, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Boston, MA |
| 2011 | Ansu Perekatt | Tyner | PhD | Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology |
| 2011 | Sang-min Jeon | Hay | PhD | Associate Professor; Ajou University, South Korea |
| 2011 | Jennifer Kwan | Hay | MD/PhD | Cardiology Fellow at Yale University School of Medicine |
| 2011 | Jennifer McEllin | Katzen | PhD | Research Assistant, Dissel Lab, Universityof Missouri, Kansas City |
| 2011 | Margritte (Mella) Rovani | Katzen | PhD | Assistant Professor of Biology, at Harper College Palatine, IL |
| 2011 | Thomas Wubben | Mesecar (Purdue Univ.) | MD/PhD | Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan, MI |
| 2010 | Patrick Brauer | Tyner | PhD | Senior Scientist, STEMCELL Technologies |
| 2010 | Deirdre Foley | Colley | PhD | Senior Program Manager, Ambys Medicines |
| 2010 | Ninh Doan | Gettins | MD/PHD | Assistant Prof. at University of South Alabama, Department of Neurosurgery |
| 2010 | Saugata Hazra | Lavie | PhD | Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India |
| 2010 | Ming-Fong Lye | Lavie | PhD | Scientist III; Aldevron |
| 2010 | Dragana Kopanja | Raychaudhuri | PhD | Research Assistant Professor, UIC |
| 2010 | Lyne Khair | Nakamura | PhD | Senior Biologist/Cell & Gene Therapy at Saint-Gobain Life Sciences [LinkedIn] |
| 2010 | Lakxmi Subramanian | Nakamura | PhD | Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London, England, United Kingdom |
| 2010 | Brandon Nicolay | Frolov | PhD | Director, Head of Pharmacology at Cedilla Therapeutics |
| 2010 | Laura Pereira | Merrill | PhD | Principal Scientist, Patch Biosciences |
| 2010 | Fei Yi | Merrill | PhD | Director of Cell Engineering, Ambys Medicines |
| 2010 | Evan Small | Mesecar | MD/PhD | Emergency Medicine Physician; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN |
| 2009 | Tao Bai | Lau | PhD | Research Fellowship, NIH, Bethesda, MD |
| 2009 | Joon Il Jun | Lau | PhD | Research Assistant Professor, UIC |
| 2009 | Vladislava Juric | Lau | PhD | Associate Director, Early Discovery Biology at Pionyr Immunotherapeutics |
| 2009 | Christine Doyle | Ackerman | MD/PhD | Physician, Obstetrics and Gynecology; Dupage Medical Group, IL |
| 2009 | Evan Osmundson | Kiyokawa (Northwestern Univ.) | MD/PhD | Assoc. Professor, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, TN |
| 2009 | Carmen Dominguez-Brauer | Raychaudhuri | PhD | Principal Scientist at QIAGEN |
| 2009 | Yi-Ju Chen | Raychaudhuri | PhD | Technology & Resource Development Scientitst, The Jackson Laboratory, Maine |
| 2009 | Hyun Jung Park | Raychaudhuri | PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge, England |
| 2009 | Tanya Stoyanova | Raychaudhuri | PhD | Assistant Professor, Stanford University |
| 2009 | Marija Kundakovic | Grayson (Psychiatry) | PhD | Assistant Professor, Fordham University, NY |
| 2009 | Chia-Chen Chen | Hay | PhD | Senior Manager, ScinoPharm Taiwan Ltd |
| 2009 | Deepa Sundararajan | Hay | PhD | Medical Editor at Cactus Communications, Chennai, India |
| 2009 | Ivana Tonic | Hay | PhD | Personalized Healthcare Expert at Roche Farma España, Madrid, Spain |
| 2009 | Weihan Zhao | Colley | PhD | Associate Director, Statictics; AbbVie, IL |
| 2009 | Adriana Zimnicka | Kaplan | PhD | Research Assistant Professor; UIC (Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) |
| 2008 | Irina Voineagu | Mirkin (Tufts Univ.) | PhD | Assoc. Professor, Univ. of New South Wales, Australia |
| 2008 | Richa Bedi | Ackerman | PhD | Administrative Laboratory Director, AMITA Health St.Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center, Chicago |
| 2008 | Vladimir Petrovic | Tyner | PhD | Clinical Biomarkers at Gilead Sciences |
| 2008 | Prashanth Bhaskar | Hay | PhD | |
| 2007 | Dario Segura-Peña | Lavie | PhD | Postdoctoral Scientist at University of Pennsylvania |
| 2007 | Nikolina Sekulic | Lavie | PhD | Group Leader at Norwegian Centre for Molecular Medicine |
| 2007 | Sanober Amin | Bulun (Northwestern Univ.) | MD/PhD | Dermatologist, Dermatology Solutions, Grapevine, Texas |
| 2007 | Maher Alayyoubi | Gettins | PhD | Principal Scientist at Arcturus Therapeutics |
| 2007 | Fiona Fenteany | Colley | PhD | Contract Scientist at Pfizer |
| 2007 | George Scaria | Katzen | MD/PhD | Internal Medicine, Allina Health Nicollet Mall Clinic, Minneapolis, MN |
| 2007 | Jayita Sen | Caffrey | PhD | Associate Director, Clinical Research, ImmunoGen, Inc. |
| 2006 | Susanna McRenolds | Caffrey | PhD | Regulatory Manager and Technical Supervisor, Fertility Genetics, Lone Tree, CO |
| 2006 | Ekaterina V. Mirkin | Mirkin | PhD | Lecturer in Genetics, Tufts University |
| 2006 | Jennifer Skeen | Hay | PhD | Vice President, Custom Services and Support at Berkeley Lights, Inc. |
| 2006 | Melissa Dee Laughery | Kaplan | PhD | Science Teacher, Palo Alto Prep School, Mountain View, CA |
| 2006 | IL-Man Kim | Costa | PhD | Associate Professor of Anatomy, Cell Biology & Physiology, Indiana University |
| 2006 | I-Ching Wang | Costa | PhD | Associate Professor, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan |
| 2006 | Viktor Todorovic | Lau | PhD | Principal Research Scientist at Discovery Dermatology and Fibrosis at AbbVie |
| 2006 | Carrie Franzen | Lau | PhD | Senior Scientist at Tempus Labs, Inc. |
| 2006 | Shalu Shiv | Colley | PhD | Senior Data Scientist at IBM Watson Health |
| 2006 | William Brad Ruzicka | Guidotti (Pychiatry) | MD/PhD | Research Psychiatrist at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School |
| 2005 | Andrea Haegebarth | Tyner | PhD | Senior Vice President, Head of R&D Strategy, Portfolio and Operations, Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Berlin, Germany |
| 2005 | Cristiane Lin | Lau | MD/PhD | Physician at Pediatrix Medical Group, Scottsdale, Arizona |
| 2005 | Siwanon Jirawatnotai | Kiyokawa | PhD | Dept of Pharmacology at Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand |
| 2005 | Pratibha Khanduri | Gudkov (Rosewell Park Cancer Center) | PhD | Associate at Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC, Washington DC |
| 2005 | Aatur Singhi | Gudkov (Rosewell Park Cancer Center) | PhD | Associate Professor of Pathology, Univ. of Pittsburgh |
| 2005 | Alexander D. Boiko | Gudkov (Rosewell Park Cancer Center) | PhD | Assoc. Professor, Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2004 | Monika Stankiewicz | Ackerman | PhD | Senior Clinical Research Project Manager, Protocol Development Team, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago |
| 2004 | Aleksandra Jovanovic Poole | Tyner | PhD | Vice President, Research and Development at AIVITA Biomedical |
| 2004 | Tanya Bondar | Raychaudhuri | PhD | Deputy Editor, Blood Cancer Discovery |
| 2004 | Abhishek Datta | Raychaudhuri | PhD | Head, Biologics Drug Discovery, Scholar Rock |
| 2004 | Taewon Yoon | Raychaudhuri | PhD | CEO, Yuhan USA |
| 2004 | Amy Jacobs | Caffrey | PhD | Research Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY |
| 2004 | Vladimir Jovasevic | Mokyr | PhD | Principal Scientist II, Novartis-NIBR |
| 2004 | Gerald Buldak | Mirkin | PhD | Advanced Lecturer in Biology, Loyola University, Chicago |
| 2003 | Carrie Fitzpatrick | Katzen | PhD | Associate Professor, Director, Constitutional Cytogenetics and Cytogenomics Laboratory, Department of Pathology, University of Chicago |
| 2003 | Siau Min Fung | Katzen | PhD | Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics, Vanguard University, California |
| 2003 | Shr-Jeng Leu | Lau | PhD | Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology and Laboratory Science in Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan. |
| 2003 | Tatiana Grzeszkiewicz | Lau | MD/PhD | Board of Directors, Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group; Adjunct Clinical Faculty, Stanford University Medical Center |
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